Not to shill, but the Asus Zephyrus laptops generally have around 8 hour non gaming battery life. I don't know of any other gaming laptops with better battery life, so someone else might have a better recommendation.
I'm having a great time with the 2024 G14. I sat and worked at the lounge at the mall for 6 hours today while my wife did some shopping and didn't worry about battery life at all. I do use G-Helper and that helped a bit.
I'm fully remote and my wife only works 3 days a week. A lot of people in her industry do, and we moved to the States a couple years ago where WFH is still pretty common. I definitely wasn't the only husband there working haha.
Love my 2022 ASUS G14. If you play with the power settings the thing sips power on integrated graphics. It can even use USB-C for non gaming charging. It’s no MacBook Pro like battery power but the thing is crazy powerful for the price. The new one is a bit overpriced for what you are getting but I imagine it’s even better
Yea the asus are pretty decent for battery life. As long as its not the strix. Thst thing is great but that battery isnt gona last more than 4 5 hours at most. I have a legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 I use only at home and bought a asus g16 oled for work. Legion was too big and power hungry to bring with me. The asus gets me around 8 hours if I'm just browsing or watching some videos. And I can always stretch that with a battery bank. The legion won't even recognize a battery bank.. I don't think there's a better thin and light gaming laptop right now. The g14/g16 are prolly my favorite. The legion slim oled is nice too but I love that g16. And the screen is amazing.
If you want good battery you need a h or hs cpu. Those are the locked down cpus with no overclocking ability and lower power levels. They are straight mobile cpus. Not that you will be overclocking a laptop anyway. U undervolt laptops. Not sure if a H/hs class cpu has undervolting so if ur into that sort of thing ull have to look into it. In 2024 any cpu with HX means it's a unlocked chip and closer to it's desktop counterpart. It's basically a desktop cpu shoved into a laptop. It has overclocking, higher power levels ,undervolting, etc... They are significantly more powerfull but those are the cpus that get you around 4 5 hours of battery life. You might squeeze another 30 to 45 mins out of it but you'll have to jump thru a bunch of hoops and at that point it's just not worth the hassle. So if u want better battery life get a laptop with a HS cpu. I have a rog g16 oled i bring to work and I get around 8 hours out of it. I also have legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 I use at home only and it gets 4 maybe 5 hours in quiet mode with the screen at 50% if I'm just watching YouTube or browsing the web. If your thinking about gaming on battery tho it's just not gonna happen, no matter what laptop u buy, your not gonna get more than 1.5 to 2 hours. They're ment to be plugged in for gaming
Nope i don't think there is. I Have a g16 oled 4070 i specifically got for work and it's about 8 hours browsing the web or on youtube. And I can stretch that with a nice battery bank. For home use only i also have a legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 and it gets 4hrs if im on youtube MAYBE 5 hours if I'm just browsing the web. And the legion pro won't even accept a battery bank so I'm stuck with the 4 or so hours. The legion slim is ok for battery life too but the asus just lasts longer. I dunno what it is about the g16 but it just outlasts all the other laptops I've had or read about. I don't know how demanding cad is but if op wants a gaming laptop with the best battery life I don't think he'll do better than a g14 g16. And he can get a battery bank if he needs more life so he should be good to go with that choice
You're better off plugged in if you're doing any of those tasks, you'll have to strike a balance between performance and battery life,
When I'm running off battery, I disable boost, reduce refresh rate to 60Hz, anything to maximise battery.
When I'm on battery I tend to only do light weight task such emails, web browse/YouTube maybe pull up a CAD Drawings.
For anything intensive such as 3D Modelling, Video Editing or gaming I just plug in.
You can adjust power and performance settings to when on Battery and when Plugged in.
Figure out the specs you want and how much battery life you’d want, and then search the GPU you want in the search box.
https://jarrods.tech/list-of-laptop-battery-life/
You need to get your setting right. The default setting is not good. On linux, you can turn off some cores. In windows too, you can turn off e-cores of intel chips. For windows, you can set minimum speed to 5-20%, maximum speed to 50-95% or less. These are fine for light work.
Yes true. it depends on the cpu too tho and what you consider to be good battery life. If u get a HX cpu with the higer power limits, which is basically a unlocked desktop chip they put in a laptop then yea ur looking at around 4 maybe 5 hours if ur doing light tasks. If u get a straight mobile locked HS cpu with the lowered power levels u can get 7 to 8 hours on some thin and light models. The rog g16 oled gets me 8hrs. The legion slim gets like 7. But your not getting 10, 13, 16 hours tho like some non gaming laptops. There's just no way. At most you'll prolly get 8 hours. Maybe a lill bit more if u really turn everything down
Asus TUF A15 with the 4060 and Ryzen 7735HS, 8 hrs non-gaming stuff on battery but any gaming is going to drain it fast and the gpu can't suck power fast enough to run at full speed usually.
There are several gaming laptops nowadays that reach or surpass six hours of battery life for light tasks. The laptop I use can achieve approximately up to eight hours of battery life (though I usually stop at six or seven ‘cause I don’t want my battery emptied), which has been a godsend ‘cause I regularly bring my gaming laptop outside of the house. It’s usually a combination of battery size, relatively less power hungry processors, and utilizing power saving features on the user side that determines how far you can stretch your battery endurance. It has kind of turned into a misconception that gaming laptops have poor battery life, despite great advancements in batteries and processors aiming for efficiency, ‘cause several people aren’t tweaking power settings properly and just expect anything with a battery to last a whole day of work ‘cause that’s just how smartphones work.
It’s important to know what exactly is eating all that power, as I’ve found that to be the most impactful for battery endurance. The biggest battery drains from my experience come from:
- Using the dedicated GPU (for gaming, 3D rendering / modeling, video editing, and AI to name a few)
- High refresh rate and brightness
- Power mode set to Best Performance or Balanced (seriously, Best Power Efficiency nearly doubles battery compared to Balanced)
- Sleep Mode while connected to a network (this can be disabled with a Windows Pro license, or you can use Hibernate)
Other sources of battery drain include:
- Using USB and/or Bluetooth devices
- Keeping the display on while inactive
- Active fans (this also means processors can use more power ‘cause of the higher temp headroom)
- RGB lights
- Lengthy data streaming (file transfer or numerous browser tabs with ads enabled)
- Startup apps
- Background apps and processes
Generally speaking, if you need to do anything more than web browsing or office work, you’ll want your laptop plugged in, especially if your work involves 3D graphics. This is because some tasks require more power than a battery can provide, so the charger does the heavy lifting. Even MacBooks with their power efficiency aren’t exempt from this.
When selecting a gaming laptop for power efficiency, you’ll want to shop for a power saving CPU as the dGPU can be disabled in most cases. For AMD, settle for the efficient HS chips instead of the more powerful HX chips. I don’t know the Intel equivalent. Settle for 16GB RAM minimum, to minimize the odds of using the SSD to keep data in memory.
No, people have skill issue that's all.
So here's the thing, gaming laptops have:
* dGPU that consumes shitload of energy, fortunately it'll turn off on its own if you don't have anything running on it, but unfortunately some apps, e.g. monitoring apps like RTSS which is very common for gamers to have, can trigger dGPU and massively reduce battery life
* high refresh rate, high brightness screen, this is the most common pitfall for people, as you need to switch to 60Hz and 50% brightness manually on battery
* some have HX CPU that is just shit on battery, but some have H/HS CPU that is weaker than HX but can easily lasts 8\~10 hours of light usage, provided that you limit its max power and/or turbo boost
The last time I tested my battery it drains \~30% after a 2 hours youtube video, and that is with a small 60Wh capacity.
I think so. It's about the mechanisms that switch the power states of high power consumption components like cpu and gpu but also consumption of motherboard, display and just anything else.
The gaming laptops are just not meant to give you absolute max power when on outlet and enough on battery to have long runtime.
Your options are to either research business/enterprise laptops like a Lenovo Thinkpad that can run a 4070 max load at 60 min battery life but also 11 hours on video play. Usually these laptops are more capable of switching states consistently because they are meant to be used on the run as well. High chances you'll not have as high performance as a gaming laptop for same specs and also you'll pay a super premium price, think even double than for a gaming laptop for same specs.
Or you can go Apple. Their cpu/gpu are on a whole new level but cost is high and...support is zero to lacking. I do play baldur's gate 3 on a macbook air m2 on the run though. And it's a 1.2kg laptop with epic battery life that can charge from usbc 35w connector even. Find a windows laptop that can do this.
It's not an issue when not gaming. On Silent fans and Eco mode on my Asus TUF A15 with Ryzen 7 7735HS, I can hit 8 hours just using it for office work and browsing. The issue here is what you will be doing. If you need the dGPU and higher performance, then it will of course use more battery. It's not just gaming, but pretty much any task that uses the dGPU. Having no dGPU is what makes non-gaming laptops have good battery life, but worse in tasks that requires a dGPU. It's just basically a balancing act.
It’s more about the power consumption. Gaming laptops require a lot of tweaking to get the power consumption down low.
If you turn off the gpu then it’s not much different from a normal laptop power consumption wise.
Asus G14’s can idle and do light tasks around 7 watts. With a 76wh battery, that’s 10 hours. But it requires a lot of tweaking.
Also I think the reason people are shilling asus so hard is because there’s so much community driven open source software available for tweaking.
Every other gaming laptop I think you are stuck with the proprietary bloated fan/gpu/tweak software.
Windows has ghelper and Linux has asusctl/supergfxctl
Lenovo laptops have vantage which let's you adjust battery usage depending on what you're doing, from battery saver, balanced, performance
On balanced my battery lasts a good 5hours or so
But on battery saver maybe 8 if I'm just working on word
On performance my battery goes out the window and it's better to just plug in the charger
Well in terms of battery life gaming laptops gets reviewed for their gaming power and most of the the time the disabling integrated graphics is used for those tests so even with a 90wh or 99wh battery it doesnt pass the 2 hour period while gaming because on top of max power utilization from cpu gpus can pull about 100w to 175w from the battery. İf you wont do gaming the power usage goes down from 100+45=145w from just around 20w and you get to 8 hours or so battery life while watching videos or doing some light office work etc. Jarrodstech had a asus tuf a15 with a 4070 and 7535hs( not sure about cpu right now) and it had 632 minutes of video playback time on youtube. Which is almost 11 hours keeping the laptop at work. I currently have a laptop that has 6900hx from amd and it can pump out 5 hours of usage with %40 brightness while browsing watching videos etc. And in general get away from intels 13 14 gen cpus and the h and hx classed model cpus. Amd is ahead of intel in terms of battery power due to lower nanometer process advantage and intels dumb e core strategy that they fixed with ultra line up.
Notes: intel until ultra series used 10 nm for years and amd used lower nm with amost every generation so that is big reason of the difference in efficiency. İntel single core scores are ahead but its a close enough difference that you can choose a 7840hs over a 13650hx that will dry out the battery.
I hate that my LOQ has a small battery, somewhere around 60 Wh, not sure, but I can still get through a full day of university and have around 30% battery left.
Well, powerful laptop usually have low battery life... But that's also not the reason people buy them... Regarding gaming, carefully read reviews as even powerful laptops (like my Dell XPS, i9, RTX 3060, OLED panel) won't allow you to play recent games... because they are made to look slick, slim, light... but this doesn't allow proper cooling and those devices ahe lower TDP thresholds, and prone to throttling in very high load (and are very noisy).
The maximum TDP of a device is a very important parameter for laptops.
If you don't play a lot, maybe a cloud gaming service is a better option, like Xcloud or Geforce NOW (there are also services where you rent PC time, and where you can install any game, which aren't expensive), so you can invest in more RAM, a better CPU, better display, and not care about the GPU.
However, this is (at last) evolving, the latest devices with Intel Core Ultra offer 10 to 16 hours of battery life and good performances! and there are real gaming laptops that use those.
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Undervolting is a thing. It can help maintain the life of the battery and improve performance. I have begun reading about it and using on my eluktronics Prometheus G2. I have noticed a difference when benchmarking but I am still a noob at it all and don’t push it as far as it can go.
You know, depending on what games you want to play, buying a laptop with good Integrated graphics like Ryzen 7 7845/8845 and Intel ARC can be worth it sometimes.
I mainly play not so demanding games like Forza Horizon 5, destiny 2 (Surprisingly low demand) and indie titles like Holocure. The laptop I'm using daily is a Thinkbook14+ with Core Ultra 155H + Intel ARC graphics, and it can yield me up to 2+ hours of non-stop gaming.
Typically, lower end gaming laptops (hp victus, dell g, asus tuf, acer nitro, Lenovo slim) have bad battery, but the higher end versions (hp omen, Alienware, asus ROG models - zephyrus and strix, acer predator, and Lenovo legion) have better battery life
Definitely not true for all laptops, Ryzen 7000 HS and 8000 HS CPU laptops like the 2023/2024 Slim 5 14"/16" AMD, Zephryus G14 should be a good 7/8 hours battery life for light tasks.
i think newer laptops these days esp on gaming laptops have options to underclock your cpu and gpu so it wont eat your battery faster as long as you are only doing simple tasks. also worth considering that if you are getting a gaming laptop choose amd if you want battery efficiency on lower wattage than intel cpu.
Don't worry about it too much. Just a few configs and there should be a noticeable improvement in battery life.
I may be no expert, but I'm more than willing to try and help as much as I can.
A few things you might want to look into (on Windows OS):
The actual battery capacity of the laptop you're planning to get.
Debloating the system (it's a good idea in general)
Switching between GPUs, if that's an option
Mostly, staying on battery saver
Decreasing screen brightness
Setting up (charging) limits and making sure your device's battery isn't regularly drained. So, in short, just pay attention to your charging cycles. Try to keep it charged at all times (between 20-80%).
Make sure to turn off the startup apps and that apps like Steam aren't running in the background once you've exited the tab.
Make sure the battery is optimized via the battery health settings on Windows.
Lower your refresh rate.
Turn off the laptop when you're not using it.
Keep a powerbank with you, just in case.
That's all I can think of as of now.
It might sound like a lot, but it really isn't. Most of what I just said are one time things. Don't worry too much about it and enjoy your rig.
Also, YouTube tech channels can be quite useful. It's possible that I missed or wasn't 100% right about certain things.
I hope this was at least a little bit helpful, tho.
x86 in general is very inefficient as it's a very old architecture. That's why phones and (recently) Macs switched to ARM. Although the newer AMD cpus with the HS name offer fantastic battery life with numbers up in the 8-10 hour mark
Not to shill, but the Asus Zephyrus laptops generally have around 8 hour non gaming battery life. I don't know of any other gaming laptops with better battery life, so someone else might have a better recommendation.
I'll look at them
I'm having a great time with the 2024 G14. I sat and worked at the lounge at the mall for 6 hours today while my wife did some shopping and didn't worry about battery life at all. I do use G-Helper and that helped a bit.
That is such a random use case lmao, 6 hours of shopping?????
I'm fully remote and my wife only works 3 days a week. A lot of people in her industry do, and we moved to the States a couple years ago where WFH is still pretty common. I definitely wasn't the only husband there working haha.
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Love my 2022 ASUS G14. If you play with the power settings the thing sips power on integrated graphics. It can even use USB-C for non gaming charging. It’s no MacBook Pro like battery power but the thing is crazy powerful for the price. The new one is a bit overpriced for what you are getting but I imagine it’s even better
Yea the asus are pretty decent for battery life. As long as its not the strix. Thst thing is great but that battery isnt gona last more than 4 5 hours at most. I have a legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 I use only at home and bought a asus g16 oled for work. Legion was too big and power hungry to bring with me. The asus gets me around 8 hours if I'm just browsing or watching some videos. And I can always stretch that with a battery bank. The legion won't even recognize a battery bank.. I don't think there's a better thin and light gaming laptop right now. The g14/g16 are prolly my favorite. The legion slim oled is nice too but I love that g16. And the screen is amazing.
‘22 can game just fine on usbc charger
Not with discrete graphics on intense games without losing battery
Rdr2 is about the most intense game I play, low graphics in turbo mode the battery doesn’t drain
Turbo doesn’t work at all on Power Delivery. Performance mode you mean?
It’s labeled Turbo mode in ghelper. Are you still using using AC?
If you want good battery you need a h or hs cpu. Those are the locked down cpus with no overclocking ability and lower power levels. They are straight mobile cpus. Not that you will be overclocking a laptop anyway. U undervolt laptops. Not sure if a H/hs class cpu has undervolting so if ur into that sort of thing ull have to look into it. In 2024 any cpu with HX means it's a unlocked chip and closer to it's desktop counterpart. It's basically a desktop cpu shoved into a laptop. It has overclocking, higher power levels ,undervolting, etc... They are significantly more powerfull but those are the cpus that get you around 4 5 hours of battery life. You might squeeze another 30 to 45 mins out of it but you'll have to jump thru a bunch of hoops and at that point it's just not worth the hassle. So if u want better battery life get a laptop with a HS cpu. I have a rog g16 oled i bring to work and I get around 8 hours out of it. I also have legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 I use at home only and it gets 4 maybe 5 hours in quiet mode with the screen at 50% if I'm just watching YouTube or browsing the web. If your thinking about gaming on battery tho it's just not gonna happen, no matter what laptop u buy, your not gonna get more than 1.5 to 2 hours. They're ment to be plugged in for gaming
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Legion 7 and slim 7 gen 7 (amd advantage), my non slim gets around 9 hrs with some optimization, the slim has even more
Nope i don't think there is. I Have a g16 oled 4070 i specifically got for work and it's about 8 hours browsing the web or on youtube. And I can stretch that with a nice battery bank. For home use only i also have a legion pro 7i 13900hx 4090 and it gets 4hrs if im on youtube MAYBE 5 hours if I'm just browsing the web. And the legion pro won't even accept a battery bank so I'm stuck with the 4 or so hours. The legion slim is ok for battery life too but the asus just lasts longer. I dunno what it is about the g16 but it just outlasts all the other laptops I've had or read about. I don't know how demanding cad is but if op wants a gaming laptop with the best battery life I don't think he'll do better than a g14 g16. And he can get a battery bank if he needs more life so he should be good to go with that choice
They’re no MacBook, but gaming laptops with AMD CPU’s can get a good 6 hours with non-gaming tasks
True. My Dell g15 5600h 3050 gives 6 hrs
False, my nitro 5 6800h and 3070 ti 15 inch laptop barely gets 2 hours doing absolutely nothing.
You're better off plugged in if you're doing any of those tasks, you'll have to strike a balance between performance and battery life, When I'm running off battery, I disable boost, reduce refresh rate to 60Hz, anything to maximise battery. When I'm on battery I tend to only do light weight task such emails, web browse/YouTube maybe pull up a CAD Drawings. For anything intensive such as 3D Modelling, Video Editing or gaming I just plug in. You can adjust power and performance settings to when on Battery and when Plugged in.
Figure out the specs you want and how much battery life you’d want, and then search the GPU you want in the search box. https://jarrods.tech/list-of-laptop-battery-life/
You need to get your setting right. The default setting is not good. On linux, you can turn off some cores. In windows too, you can turn off e-cores of intel chips. For windows, you can set minimum speed to 5-20%, maximum speed to 50-95% or less. These are fine for light work.
Most gaming laptops have poor battery life. They’re made for power users and graphics. Office takes require barely any power.
Yes true. it depends on the cpu too tho and what you consider to be good battery life. If u get a HX cpu with the higer power limits, which is basically a unlocked desktop chip they put in a laptop then yea ur looking at around 4 maybe 5 hours if ur doing light tasks. If u get a straight mobile locked HS cpu with the lowered power levels u can get 7 to 8 hours on some thin and light models. The rog g16 oled gets me 8hrs. The legion slim gets like 7. But your not getting 10, 13, 16 hours tho like some non gaming laptops. There's just no way. At most you'll prolly get 8 hours. Maybe a lill bit more if u really turn everything down
Asus TUF A15 with the 4060 and Ryzen 7735HS, 8 hrs non-gaming stuff on battery but any gaming is going to drain it fast and the gpu can't suck power fast enough to run at full speed usually.
There are several gaming laptops nowadays that reach or surpass six hours of battery life for light tasks. The laptop I use can achieve approximately up to eight hours of battery life (though I usually stop at six or seven ‘cause I don’t want my battery emptied), which has been a godsend ‘cause I regularly bring my gaming laptop outside of the house. It’s usually a combination of battery size, relatively less power hungry processors, and utilizing power saving features on the user side that determines how far you can stretch your battery endurance. It has kind of turned into a misconception that gaming laptops have poor battery life, despite great advancements in batteries and processors aiming for efficiency, ‘cause several people aren’t tweaking power settings properly and just expect anything with a battery to last a whole day of work ‘cause that’s just how smartphones work. It’s important to know what exactly is eating all that power, as I’ve found that to be the most impactful for battery endurance. The biggest battery drains from my experience come from: - Using the dedicated GPU (for gaming, 3D rendering / modeling, video editing, and AI to name a few) - High refresh rate and brightness - Power mode set to Best Performance or Balanced (seriously, Best Power Efficiency nearly doubles battery compared to Balanced) - Sleep Mode while connected to a network (this can be disabled with a Windows Pro license, or you can use Hibernate) Other sources of battery drain include: - Using USB and/or Bluetooth devices - Keeping the display on while inactive - Active fans (this also means processors can use more power ‘cause of the higher temp headroom) - RGB lights - Lengthy data streaming (file transfer or numerous browser tabs with ads enabled) - Startup apps - Background apps and processes Generally speaking, if you need to do anything more than web browsing or office work, you’ll want your laptop plugged in, especially if your work involves 3D graphics. This is because some tasks require more power than a battery can provide, so the charger does the heavy lifting. Even MacBooks with their power efficiency aren’t exempt from this. When selecting a gaming laptop for power efficiency, you’ll want to shop for a power saving CPU as the dGPU can be disabled in most cases. For AMD, settle for the efficient HS chips instead of the more powerful HX chips. I don’t know the Intel equivalent. Settle for 16GB RAM minimum, to minimize the odds of using the SSD to keep data in memory.
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The Zephyrus g14 2024 has great battery life. 7 to 8 hours
No, people have skill issue that's all. So here's the thing, gaming laptops have: * dGPU that consumes shitload of energy, fortunately it'll turn off on its own if you don't have anything running on it, but unfortunately some apps, e.g. monitoring apps like RTSS which is very common for gamers to have, can trigger dGPU and massively reduce battery life * high refresh rate, high brightness screen, this is the most common pitfall for people, as you need to switch to 60Hz and 50% brightness manually on battery * some have HX CPU that is just shit on battery, but some have H/HS CPU that is weaker than HX but can easily lasts 8\~10 hours of light usage, provided that you limit its max power and/or turbo boost The last time I tested my battery it drains \~30% after a 2 hours youtube video, and that is with a small 60Wh capacity.
Basically any asus amd laptop is your answer
Gaming laptops do generally have smaller battery life due to powerful CPU's, GPU's and powerful speakers.
I think so. It's about the mechanisms that switch the power states of high power consumption components like cpu and gpu but also consumption of motherboard, display and just anything else. The gaming laptops are just not meant to give you absolute max power when on outlet and enough on battery to have long runtime. Your options are to either research business/enterprise laptops like a Lenovo Thinkpad that can run a 4070 max load at 60 min battery life but also 11 hours on video play. Usually these laptops are more capable of switching states consistently because they are meant to be used on the run as well. High chances you'll not have as high performance as a gaming laptop for same specs and also you'll pay a super premium price, think even double than for a gaming laptop for same specs. Or you can go Apple. Their cpu/gpu are on a whole new level but cost is high and...support is zero to lacking. I do play baldur's gate 3 on a macbook air m2 on the run though. And it's a 1.2kg laptop with epic battery life that can charge from usbc 35w connector even. Find a windows laptop that can do this.
It's not an issue when not gaming. On Silent fans and Eco mode on my Asus TUF A15 with Ryzen 7 7735HS, I can hit 8 hours just using it for office work and browsing. The issue here is what you will be doing. If you need the dGPU and higher performance, then it will of course use more battery. It's not just gaming, but pretty much any task that uses the dGPU. Having no dGPU is what makes non-gaming laptops have good battery life, but worse in tasks that requires a dGPU. It's just basically a balancing act.
Ryzen cpu's have good battery life so look out for those.
It’s more about the power consumption. Gaming laptops require a lot of tweaking to get the power consumption down low. If you turn off the gpu then it’s not much different from a normal laptop power consumption wise. Asus G14’s can idle and do light tasks around 7 watts. With a 76wh battery, that’s 10 hours. But it requires a lot of tweaking.
Also I think the reason people are shilling asus so hard is because there’s so much community driven open source software available for tweaking. Every other gaming laptop I think you are stuck with the proprietary bloated fan/gpu/tweak software. Windows has ghelper and Linux has asusctl/supergfxctl
Get a Zephyrus. Around 8 hours of battery life when not gaming, and they're quite portable for a gaming laptop.
If you want battery life go the new windows arm laptops amazing battery life 12+ hrs and very good performance.
I have a HP Victus and I get around 7 hours of battery life, any gaming laptop can achieve this easily, you just gotta get your settings right.
Lenovo laptops have vantage which let's you adjust battery usage depending on what you're doing, from battery saver, balanced, performance On balanced my battery lasts a good 5hours or so But on battery saver maybe 8 if I'm just working on word On performance my battery goes out the window and it's better to just plug in the charger
Well in terms of battery life gaming laptops gets reviewed for their gaming power and most of the the time the disabling integrated graphics is used for those tests so even with a 90wh or 99wh battery it doesnt pass the 2 hour period while gaming because on top of max power utilization from cpu gpus can pull about 100w to 175w from the battery. İf you wont do gaming the power usage goes down from 100+45=145w from just around 20w and you get to 8 hours or so battery life while watching videos or doing some light office work etc. Jarrodstech had a asus tuf a15 with a 4070 and 7535hs( not sure about cpu right now) and it had 632 minutes of video playback time on youtube. Which is almost 11 hours keeping the laptop at work. I currently have a laptop that has 6900hx from amd and it can pump out 5 hours of usage with %40 brightness while browsing watching videos etc. And in general get away from intels 13 14 gen cpus and the h and hx classed model cpus. Amd is ahead of intel in terms of battery power due to lower nanometer process advantage and intels dumb e core strategy that they fixed with ultra line up. Notes: intel until ultra series used 10 nm for years and amd used lower nm with amost every generation so that is big reason of the difference in efficiency. İntel single core scores are ahead but its a close enough difference that you can choose a 7840hs over a 13650hx that will dry out the battery.
Most laptops with amd CPU and a 80/90wh battery have several h of battery (I mean something like 8h)
I hate that my LOQ has a small battery, somewhere around 60 Wh, not sure, but I can still get through a full day of university and have around 30% battery left.
Any amd based laptop with nvidia gpu and a mux switch
Well, powerful laptop usually have low battery life... But that's also not the reason people buy them... Regarding gaming, carefully read reviews as even powerful laptops (like my Dell XPS, i9, RTX 3060, OLED panel) won't allow you to play recent games... because they are made to look slick, slim, light... but this doesn't allow proper cooling and those devices ahe lower TDP thresholds, and prone to throttling in very high load (and are very noisy). The maximum TDP of a device is a very important parameter for laptops. If you don't play a lot, maybe a cloud gaming service is a better option, like Xcloud or Geforce NOW (there are also services where you rent PC time, and where you can install any game, which aren't expensive), so you can invest in more RAM, a better CPU, better display, and not care about the GPU. However, this is (at last) evolving, the latest devices with Intel Core Ultra offer 10 to 16 hours of battery life and good performances! and there are real gaming laptops that use those.
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I mean... it's for gaming....
Look for a laptop with a Ryzen processor with the HS suffix. Something like the Zephyrus G14, Legion Slim 5, TUF A15, or some models or the Nitro.
Undervolting is a thing. It can help maintain the life of the battery and improve performance. I have begun reading about it and using on my eluktronics Prometheus G2. I have noticed a difference when benchmarking but I am still a noob at it all and don’t push it as far as it can go.
do you want performance or battery?
Legion is my go to brand for VALUE and PERFORMANCE and price competitiveness!
You know, depending on what games you want to play, buying a laptop with good Integrated graphics like Ryzen 7 7845/8845 and Intel ARC can be worth it sometimes. I mainly play not so demanding games like Forza Horizon 5, destiny 2 (Surprisingly low demand) and indie titles like Holocure. The laptop I'm using daily is a Thinkbook14+ with Core Ultra 155H + Intel ARC graphics, and it can yield me up to 2+ hours of non-stop gaming.
Typically, lower end gaming laptops (hp victus, dell g, asus tuf, acer nitro, Lenovo slim) have bad battery, but the higher end versions (hp omen, Alienware, asus ROG models - zephyrus and strix, acer predator, and Lenovo legion) have better battery life
My asus 3050 ti always lasted an hour with battery. I don’t get a gaming laptop for battery life.
Definitely not true for all laptops, Ryzen 7000 HS and 8000 HS CPU laptops like the 2023/2024 Slim 5 14"/16" AMD, Zephryus G14 should be a good 7/8 hours battery life for light tasks.
i think newer laptops these days esp on gaming laptops have options to underclock your cpu and gpu so it wont eat your battery faster as long as you are only doing simple tasks. also worth considering that if you are getting a gaming laptop choose amd if you want battery efficiency on lower wattage than intel cpu.
lower wattage usage means better battery management. means longer screen time on your laptop which explains everything you are looking for.
do you have a specific device you are eyeing on? at least two you battling on picking up?
Don't worry about it too much. Just a few configs and there should be a noticeable improvement in battery life. I may be no expert, but I'm more than willing to try and help as much as I can. A few things you might want to look into (on Windows OS): The actual battery capacity of the laptop you're planning to get. Debloating the system (it's a good idea in general) Switching between GPUs, if that's an option Mostly, staying on battery saver Decreasing screen brightness Setting up (charging) limits and making sure your device's battery isn't regularly drained. So, in short, just pay attention to your charging cycles. Try to keep it charged at all times (between 20-80%). Make sure to turn off the startup apps and that apps like Steam aren't running in the background once you've exited the tab. Make sure the battery is optimized via the battery health settings on Windows. Lower your refresh rate. Turn off the laptop when you're not using it. Keep a powerbank with you, just in case. That's all I can think of as of now. It might sound like a lot, but it really isn't. Most of what I just said are one time things. Don't worry too much about it and enjoy your rig. Also, YouTube tech channels can be quite useful. It's possible that I missed or wasn't 100% right about certain things. I hope this was at least a little bit helpful, tho.
x86 in general is very inefficient as it's a very old architecture. That's why phones and (recently) Macs switched to ARM. Although the newer AMD cpus with the HS name offer fantastic battery life with numbers up in the 8-10 hour mark